The Penn's Grove record., 1887-12-10

were fatally stabbed. The cutting Il
alleged to have been done by William
und Frank Erhart, brothers.
John Davidson and William Crow
coal miners, living near Carrollton,
Illinois, quarrelled IN the evening o.
the Sd, and, in a fight that ensued
Crow was stabbed TO death and David
son received three pistol wounds
which. 1t Is thought. will prove fatal.
1t is stated thas there are two cases
Of leprosy of the most loathsome type
near Rothsay, Minnesota. Both are
Norwegians and heads of families. ,None
Of the members Of the family have the
disease. Before leaving Norway both
men we're fishermen and lived almost
exclusively on a fish diet, to which they
attribute their afliction.
William Baxter, his two sons and
a man named Douglas, living near
Chattanooga, Tennessee, were bitten
by a rabid dog on the 80. Stephen
Dietrich, of Camp Greek, was dying in
a hospital in Cincinnati, on the Sd, of
what was supposed to be hydrophobia.
He was bitten by a pet terrier a few
weeks ago.
While In a at of delirinm from
diphtheria Frank M. Whitmore, a
young business man Of Pittsburg, blew
his brains out with q shot gun on the
morning Of the 4th. during the tenn
porary absence OF his attendant. He
was a member Of the shoe firm of w,
E. Scbmertz u Co. He was So years
old and unmarried.
"A passenger train on the 4th stuck
In the snow one mile west OF IrOquOis,
Dakota. A brakeman was sent back
to flag another passenger train APP
preaching within half a mile from the
first. The engineer, having his cab
window closed, did not see the signal,
and his train ran into the rear coach OF
the other, t~elescOping it. Most of the
people in the wrecked coach got out
before the collision, and the few who
renamed inside escaped with severe
bruises. In all nine persons, including
the engineer and fireman, were injured.
"A four-year.old son Of John W.
Bailey, Of Whitehall, Virginia, was
fatally scalded on the 81 by falling into
a pot of hot lard.
"A telegram from San Francisco
says detectives have learned that the
murder OF a Chinaman named Lee
Wy, In the Chinese quarter in that city
recently. was the result of n Of those
deadly feuds that are carried on by
Chinese soclties in this country. 1.-THE
Sam Jup Company a large and power
full organization, which made its own
laws for the Chinese belonging to It,
split some time ago into two factions
called the Bo Sin Seer and the Kie Sin
Seer, Some highbinders of the K1e
Sin Seer faction killed two men Of the
Bo Sin Seer, and the latter faction
commissioned a trusty c~ut-throat,
named LeOng All Tick, to avenge the
slaughter Of its members. LeoEg All
Tick accordingly killed Lee Wy, wh-
happened to be the first Eie Sin See
who came An range Of his pistol. n
the latter murder a party from the K.
Sin Seer went to the headquarters OF
the 30 Sin Seer faction, and, tearing
down the sign over the door, chopped
it to pieces. This is considered the
greatest indignity that a be offred to
a highbinder's organization, and can
only be wiped out by blood"
"A locomotive on the I~ntercolonial
Railroad exploded at Stellarton Sta
tion, Nova Scotia, on the 9th, killing
three men and injurmg several others.
The engine was demolished and the
station building was badly wrecked.
"A passenger train on the Illinois
Central Railroad ran into a freight
train at Amboy, illinois. on the MORN
ing Of the 9th. Calvin Wood, the a.
gineer on the freight train, was K
and the brakeman ia ALLY injuref
IS said the yardmaster at Ambt. it
the freight standing on the main track
with no red lights out.
One of a battery of eight boilers
exploded at the Hubbard Iron Mill, In
Hubbard, Ohio, early on the morning
of the 9th, wrecklng the boiler house
and terribly scaIding fireman William
Siefert. The explosion occurred before
the day force went on duty.
During the progress of a sale Of |
furniture at an auction room in Tees /
water, Ontario, on the 9th, the floor
gave way, precipitating about seventy |
persons, together with a quantity OF |
furniture. into the cellar. The fall /
was nine feet. Twenty persons were
more or less injured, but none dam
gerously.
Christian Rudy, 65 years old, an
of the Poor House in Lancaster
Pennsylvania. was found dead
IN a field near that institution on the
9Th. John Rudy, his son, was arrested
On the charge of committing the muir
der. A blood stained Ratchet was
in his possession.
DIR. Eckles and Miss Ella p. Wal
Iron were, on the 5th, held for trial in
Boston on the charge of swIndling peo-
pie throughout the country by adver-
using "to furnish materials by which |
works Of art could be produced at
lome." The materials furnished are
to have proved worthless
"A despatch from Bangor, Maine,
lays that Peter Bennett, aged 81 years,
wealthy farmer living at Newport, !
had a distrust Of savings banks aud
kept a large amount of money
II uhC hOu5Cs III tuC OtCuiuS Vi llc
lth robbers beat him and escaped with
49,, 600 in bills aud gold. Eugene
McCarthy, the burglar who shot DR..
Theodore II. Hornblower, the we'll
Known druggist of Jersey City Heights,
New Jersey, about two months ago.
was Oh the 9th, sentenced to is years
Imprisonment by Judge Lippincott.
Frank Klein. the chief of a gang
If train robbers who went through a
rain near Little Rock four years ago,
IN the Little Rock. Mississippi and
Texas Railroad, has been arrested near
Muskogee, Indian Territory, and taken
Fort Smith. He says he has been
hunted and haunted for four years and
vas in fear of his life and is now
relieved.
james Funk shot and killed bis